Author: Dickens, Bernard M.; editor:
Title: Medicine and the Law
Description: New York, New York University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 25x17cm, xxviii,280 pp, Series: Inrternational Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, Areas, 20.. Minor rubbing. Slight binding corner bump. VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: G. Calabresi "Do We Own Our Bodies?"; G.C. Leedes "Liberalism, Republicanism & the Abortion Controversy"; B. Chapman "Controlling the Costs of Medical Malpractice: An Argument for Strict Hospital Liability"; B.M. Dickens "Abortion & Distortion of Justice in Law"; J. Jacob "The Right of the Mental Patient to his Psychosis"; J.G. Haber " The Freedom to be Psychotic?"; A. Meisel "A 'Dignitary Tort' as a Bridge Between the Idea of Informed Consent & the Law of Informed Consent"; B.M. Dickens "The Modern Function & Limits of Parental Rights"; J.R.S. Prichard "A Market for Babies?"; R.A. Posner "The Ethics & Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood"; J. Mahoney "An Essay on Surrogacy & Feminist Thought"; "Rethinking (M)otherhood: Feminist Theory & State Regulation of Pregnancy"; R.C. Howell "Kenyan Jurisprudence: The Answer to Western Regulation of 'In-Vitro-Fertilization'"; D.N. Weisstub "The Theoretical Relationship Between Law & Psychiatry".

Keywords: Medical Laws, Medicine, Jurisprudence, Legislation, United States, Surrogacy, Abortion, Legal Theory, Law